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Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky

(December 1 [1] 1913, New York - May 6, 1972, Moscow) - Russian Soviet writer, author of novels and short stories, of which the most popular was the cycle “Deniska’s Stories”, which became a classic of Soviet children's literature.

Biography

Victor Dragunsky was born on December 1 [1] 1913 in New York, into a Jewish family. His parents, emigrants from Gomel, arrived in the United States and settled in the Bronx shortly before the birth of their son. Father Yuda Falkovich Pertsovsky (1894-1918) and mother Rita Leibovna Dragunskaya (1895-1967, originally from the provincial town of Starobykhova, Mogilev province) got married on February 26, 1913, back in Gomel.[2][3][4] Not having taken root in America, in July 1914 the family returned to Gomel.

In 1918, Victor’s father died of typhus (according to other sources, he died under unclear circumstances). The revolutionary committee of the city, Ippolit Ivanovich Voitsekhovich, a red commissar who died in 1920, became his stepfather. In 1922, another stepfather appeared - an actor in the vaudeville Jewish theater (Clara Jung's troupe) Menachem-Mendl Chaimovich Rubin (1894-1962) [5] [6], with whom the family went on tours around the country. In 1925 they moved to Moscow, where Rubin and Ilya Trilling (1895-1947)[7] organized their own troupe. Later, Menachem Rubin left his family and became a director of Jewish theater in America.

Victor started working early. In 1930, already working, he began to attend the “Literary and Theater Workshops” of A. Diky. In 1935, he began performing as an actor at the Transport Theater (now the N.V. Gogol Theater).

At the same time, Dragunsky was engaged in literary work: he wrote feuilletons and humoresques, came up with sideshows, skits, pop monologues, and circus clowneries. He became close to circus performers and even worked in the circus for some time. Gradually the roles came. He played several roles in films (the film “The Russian Question”, directed by Mikhail Romm) and was accepted into the Film Actor’s Theater. But in the theater with its huge troupe, which included famous movie stars, young and not very famous actors could not count on constant employment in performances. Then Dragunsky had the idea of ​​​​creating a small amateur troupe inside the theater. True, amateur

such a troupe could be called conditionally - the participants were professional artists. Many actors responded with pleasure to the idea of ​​​​creating a parody “theater within a theater.” Dragunsky became the organizer and leader of the literary and theatrical parody ensemble “Blue Bird,” which existed from 1948 to 1958. Actors from other Moscow theaters also began to come there. Gradually, the small troupe gained significance and repeatedly performed at the House of Actors (then: All-Russian Theater Society), where at that time Alexander Moiseevich Eskin was director. The funny parody performances were such a resounding success that Dragunsky was invited to create a similar group with the same name in Mosestrad. For productions in “The Blue Bird”, together with Lyudmila Davidovich, he composed texts for several songs, which later became popular and acquired a second life on the stage: “Three Waltzes”, “Wonder Song”, “Motor Ship” (which was sung by Leonid Utesov), “ The Star of My Fields", "Birch Tree".[8]

Since 1940, he has published feuilletons and humorous stories, later collected in the collection “Iron Character” (1960); writes songs, sideshows, clowneries, skits for the stage and circus.

During the Great Patriotic War he was in the militia. In 1943, his half-brother Leonid Mikhailovich Dragunsky (Rubin; 1924-1943) died from wounds in a hospital near the village of Pechki, Lyudinovsky district, Kaluga region.[9][10]

Since 1959, Dragunsky has been writing funny stories about the boy Denis Korablev and his friend Mishka Slonov under the general title “Deniska’s Stories.” In the 1960s, books from this series were published in large numbers:

• "Girl on the Ball",
• "Enchanted Letter"
• "Childhood Friend"
• "Dog Thief"
• "Twenty years under the bed"
• “The magical power of art”, etc.

In the 1970s:

• "Red ball in the blue sky"
• "Colorful Stories"
• "Adventure" etc.

Based on these stories, the films “Funny Stories”, “Girl on the Ball”, “Deniska’s Stories”, “In Secret to the Whole World”, “The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev”, short films “Where has it been seen, where has it been heard”, “Captain” have been released , “Fire in the Outbuilding”, “Spyglass”, the plot of “Jumble” “The Glory of Ivan Kozlovsky”. These stories brought their author enormous popularity, and it was with them that his name became associated. The name Denisk was not chosen by chance - that was the name of his son. In addition, Dragunsky was the screenwriter of the film “Magic Power,” in which Deniska Korablev was also featured as a hero.

Dragunsky's grave at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

In 1990, songs based on the poems of Viktor Dragunsky were published by his widow[11].

However, Victor Dragunsky wrote not only for children. In 1961, the story “He Fell on the Grass” about the very first days of the war was published. Its hero, a young artist, like the author of the book himself, despite the fact that he was not drafted into the army due to disability, enlisted in the militia. The story “Today and Everyday” (1964) is dedicated to the life of circus workers, the main character of which is a clown; This is a book about a person who exists in spite of time, who lives in his own way.

The writer died in Moscow on May 6, 1972. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Dragunsky Viktor Yuzefovich

DRAGUNSKY Viktor Yuzefovich - Russian writer. He was born in New York in 1913. His parents moved to the United States in hopes of becoming rich. However, the young family quickly (1914) returned and began living in Gomel. The writer spent his entire childhood there.

The formation of Victor’s personality was influenced by his father, who died of typhus, and to a greater extent by his stepfathers. The first of them was the army commissar I. Voitsekhovich, who died in 1920, and the second was M. Rubin, a theater actor. The Dragunsky family also went on tour around Russia with Rubin. The new family moved to the capital in 1925. However, the marriage with the actor ended tragically for Dragunsky’s mother: one day her husband left and did not return.

Victor was forced to earn money on his own. After graduating from school, he goes to study as a turner at the Samotochka enterprise. Soon Victor is fired for violating the rules. After this, he begins to work at the Sport Tourism factory as a saddler's apprentice.

Then he enters literary workshops to study theater arts. After Victor completed the course, he was hired at the Transport Theater. Soon after the next youth show, he was sent to the Satire Theater. Before the start of hostilities, his first funny feuilletons and interesting stories were published.

During the hostilities, Victor served in the people's militia, and then performed at the fronts with concert brigades. He worked as a circus clown for about a year, and then returned to the theater again.

Dragunsky was invited to the restored Theater-Studio of the Film Actor. He successfully plays in plays and even stars in the film “The Russian Question” (M. Romma). However, Victor is looking for another job for himself. The fact is that in experienced theater troupes, good roles very rarely went to young artists. And they did not expect regular employment.

Dragunsky created something like a theater within a theater. He came up with the "Blue Bird", which at times played something like skits. Victor's team quickly gained popularity, and he was often invited to the Actor's House or scientific institutes. According to the instructions of the officials, Dragunsky forms an ensemble, which is also called “Blue Bird”. In this ensemble he plays his own numbers. For these performances, Victor himself writes verses, comes up with programs, pop monologues, sideshows and circus clowneries. Together with his friend L. Davidovich, Victor will come up with several songs (Miracle Song, Berezonka, Three Waltzes). All people considered Victor a very gifted person, but no one imagined that he would turn into a writer. This metamorphosis happened by chance.

Victor felt the little things in life in a special way. Old acquaintances remember that he always knew corners of Moscow unknown to others, knew where to buy fragrant bagels, and where to look at something fascinating. He often wandered around the capital and absorbed all its details. He described all this in Deniska’s stories. These humorous stories are good both because they accurately show child psychology, and because they show a good, pure, unspoiled worldview, that is, a perception of reality that occurs only at the beginning of life’s journey. The fact that the birds were put on display in the pig breeding pavilion is not just a plot twist that allows you to look at the situation with a grin, it is also an accurate description of the time, and a spatial sign (Denis lives very far from the exhibition) and a description of Denis’s character (he went so far away rather than visiting the nearest bird market).

All his stories describe the same time and, although the timing is not clearly stated in the work, it is clear to everyone that the action takes place in 1950-1960. It is the spirit of that era that is conveyed in the stories. People who read his books may not know Botvinnik or the clown named Karandash, but they see the atmosphere that the author recreated in his work. And even if Deniska had a kind of prototype, the hero of the stories himself lives as an independent person, and not alone: ​​he always has family, friends and simple strangers with him. Most of the stories describe opposite characters: Deniska is an inquisitive, active one, and Mishka is a slightly inhibited dreamer. However, this is not a couple of circus clowns; most of the stories develop in an intriguing and dynamic way.

Despite the seeming primitiveness of the stories, the characters described by Dragunsky are very complex and multifaceted. Later film adaptations showed that the words and intonations of the author cannot be conveyed through cinema. Clearly expressed details and specific situations in the stories written by Victor for the adult part of the population give the stories harshness.

Very often, drama in his works turns into tragedy. Dragunsky does not evaluate or condemn the society in which he lives. Victor describes multifaceted characters that show a complete picture of a person's life. One of the stories tells about the beginning of the war - “He fell on the grass.” The story tells about a man who was not accepted into the army due to health reasons, but he joined the militia and subsequently died. In the work “Today and Everyday” he shows a person living in spite of circumstances. Clown Vetrov is very talented and can make any audience laugh, but he is uncomfortable being himself and is embarrassed in front of others. This story has been filmed twice.

In 1972, on May 6, Dragunsky died in Moscow.

Family

• His first marriage was to actress Elena Petrovna Kornilova. Son - journalist Leonid Viktorovich Kornilov (1937-2007), a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, worked for many years in Izvestia, Nedelya, author of the books Fairytale Power (1965), Will Remain in Memory (1965), Image life - Soviet! (1974), “From the herald to the neon” (1978), “These amazing veterans” (1981), “Once in a lifetime: frivolous notes in the genre of tales and journalistic chatter” (2008).

Personal life

During his life, V. Dragunsky was married 2 times. The writer met his first wife in 1930, when he was still a young man. The young people dated for some time and then got married. Soon they had a child, who was named Leonid. Married life did not last long and ended in divorce. Lenya was very worried about the separation of his parents. Initially, he wanted to connect his life with mathematics and graduated from the university in his chosen field, but later his love for creativity turned out to be stronger. Like his father, Leonid became a writer.

Dragunsky's second wife is Alla Vasilievna Semichastnova. The age difference between the spouses was more than 10 years, however, their marriage lasted until the death of V. Dragunsky. During their life together, Victor and Anna had children - Ksenia and Denis, who, like their father, connected their lives with creativity.

Viktor Dragunsky died in 1972. Death occurred on May 6, the cause was a chronic disease with which the writer had been struggling for several years. Thousands of fans of his talent came to see off the great prose writer. Viktor Yuzefovich is buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. He is still warmly remembered by several generations of devoted readers.

Filmography

Film roles

• 1947 - Russian question - radio announcer

Film adaptations

• 1962 - Funny stories
• 1966 - Girl on the ball
• 1970 - Magic power
• 1970 — Deniska’s stories
• 1971 - Clown
• 1973 - Where is it seen, where is it heard
• 1973 - Captain
• 1973 - Spyglass
• 1973 - Fire in the outbuilding
• 1975 - Glory of Ivan Kozlovsky
• 1976 - In secret to the whole world
• 1979 - The amazing adventures of Denis Korablev
• 1980 - Clown

Screenwriter

• 1962 - Funny stories
• 1963 - Big Wick
• 1966 - Girl on the ball
• 1970 — Deniska’s stories
• 1970 - Magic power
• 1971 - Clown

Victor Yuzefovich Dragunsky

Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky is a poet, writer, actor, screenwriter, songwriter, who gave many amazing works not only to very young readers, but also to adults.

The talented Soviet writer Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky was born on December 1, 1913 in New York (USA). His parents from Gomel (Belarus) went to America in search of a better life.

But the family was not destined to live in America for a long time - the orders, mentality, and customs of the Americans turned out to be alien to the family, so the young couple with the baby in their arms returned after a short period of time to their native Gomel. And after a while she moved to Moscow.

Victor started working early. After graduating from school, Dragunsky began working part-time at a factory as an assistant turner. Later he moved to a factory that produced horse harness. There he made blinkers for horses.

But an irrepressible love for creativity took over - in 1930, while actively working part-time, Victor began periodically visiting the “Literary and Theater Workshops” of Alexei Diky. Having fallen in love with the stage genre, Victor first tried himself as an actor in 1935, performing in the theater.

In parallel with performing on stage, Dragunsky began writing humoresques and feuilletons. He was also good at coming up with sideshows, as well as circus clowning. Having become close to the circus and actors, he was even given several film roles.

The year 1940 opened a new stage in Dragunsky’s creative biography. It was from this year that feuilletons and funny stories by the genius of the pen began to be actively published. Later they were even collected in a collection called “Iron Character”. In parallel with funny stories, songs began to appear, as well as excellent clowning.

During the Great Patriotic War, the writer served in the militia, his unit built defensive structures near Mozhaisk. Having almost been surrounded, the militia managed to reach their own. Dragunsky went to the front many times with teams of artists.

In 1944, Dragunsky surprised everyone by going to work in the circus. There he was a red-haired clown, and he played very successfully. Children especially liked his reprises. Natalya Durova, who saw him as a little girl, remembered Dragunsky’s performances for the rest of her life, although after that she saw thousands of clowns.

The first thirteen "Deniska's stories"

were written in the winter of 1958-1959 at a cold dacha in the Moscow region.

The prototype of Denis Korablev was the writer’s son. His friend Misha Slonov also had a real prototype. Denis Dragunsky's friend's name was Mikhail Slonim. Literally a year later, the books “The Girl on the Ball”, “Childhood Friend” and other books in this series are published in large editions. In the 1970s, Dragunsky worked even more actively, creating masterpieces for young readers. This is how the books “Colorful Stories” and “Adventure” appear. The children read his stories. It was really difficult to tear yourself away from these works, because they were presented to the reader in a lightly humorous, but instructive form. With his stories, Dragunsky was able to instill a love of reading in thousands of children.

Based on funny stories, the films “Funny Stories”, “Girl on a Ball”, “Deniska’s Stories”, “In Secret to the Whole World”, “The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev”, short films “Where is it seen, where is it heard”, “Captain” are released , “Fire in the Outbuilding”, “Spyglass”, the plot of “Jumble” “The Glory of Ivan Kozlovsky”.

In 1961, his largely autobiographical story “He Fell on the Grass”

. In the work, Dragunsky illustrated the difficult days of the war that our defenders of the Motherland experienced. All events are presented on behalf of 19-year-old Mitya Korolev, who works in the theater. He strives to go to the front, but he is not accepted due to a congenital leg injury. He manages to enroll in the people's militia.

A wide audience of readers also appreciated the work “Today and Daily,” which was published in 1964. This work was dedicated to circus workers. The magnificent trickster Nikolai Vetrov can save the weakest program, make good collections even in the smallest provincial circus, but in real life he is awkward and uncomfortable. The story has been filmed twice.

His stories “Old Women”, “Strange Spot on the Ceiling”, “The Real Poet”, “Funny Stories about School” are also known.

Deniska's stories

The stories take place in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Moscow.

The main character, Denis, lives with his mother and father in the center of Moscow - in various stories it is mentioned that he lives on Karetny Ryad (“Adventure”), not far from the Circus (“No worse than you circus people”), in Trekhprudny Lane (“On Sadovaya is a big movement"). Denis is the only child of his parents until the story “My Sister Ksenia” takes place, in which he has a sister.

This is an ordinary boy, with whom funny or curious incidents happen every now and then.

One day he pours semolina porridge out of the window in order to quickly go with his mother to the Kremlin, and when a citizen who suffered from the porridge comes to them, accompanied by a policeman, the boy understands what his mother’s words “The secret becomes apparent” (the story of the same name) meant. While going to the circus, he sees an amazing girl on a ball, but the next time, when he brings his dad to look at her, he finds out that she went with her parents to Vladivostok (“Girl on a Ball”).

During another visit to the circus, he changes places with another boy in the hall, as a result of which the clown Pencil, while performing his act, grabs him and, swinging on a swing, takes him with him under the circus dome (“No worse than you, circus people”). During a trip to the zoo, Shango the elephant almost eats his father's brand new transistor radio (“The Elephant and the Radio”).

At a children's party at the Metalist club, Denis drinks a bottle of lemonade to gain the missing 500 grams of weight up to 25 kilograms and win a subscription to the Murzilka magazine, which he then shares with his friend Mishka (“Exactly 25 kilos”). He begins to paint the entrance door from the hose left by the painters and gets so carried away that he paints not only the door, but also his girlfriend Alyonka, and the suit of the house manager Alexei Akimych (“Top down, diagonally!”).

While playing hide and seek in a communal apartment, Denis climbs under the bed of his neighbor grandmother, and when she locks the door and goes to bed, he is afraid that he will spend the rest of his life there (“Twenty Years Under the Bed”). Denis suggests that his mother, who complains about the mountains of dishes, wash one utensil a day, and everyone will eat from it in turn (“The Tricky Way”).

Denis has a lot of adventures at school. She and Mishka are late for class, but they tell such different stories about the reason for their lateness that their cunning is immediately revealed (“A fire in the outbuilding, or a feat in the ice...”).

At the carnival, Denis, with the help of Mishka, dresses up in a Puss in Boots costume, and then shares the prize with Mishka for the best costume (“Puss in Boots”).

During a school trip to the cinema for the premiere of a film about the Civil War, he encourages the boys of his class to “attack”, shooting from a toy pistol (“Battle of the Clear River”).

During music lessons, he loves to sing, but he believes that he should sing as loudly as possible (“Glory to Ivan Kozlovsky”).

Denis takes part in a school play behind the scenes, but loses the bell, and instead of hitting a chair with a board (pretending to be shot from a pistol), he hits a cat (“Death of the Spy Gadyukin”).

He forgets to study his lessons, as a result of which he cannot recite Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem “A Little Man with a Marigold”, and pronounces the name of the main river of America as Misi-pisi (“Main Rivers”).

You need to read “Deniska’s Stories” carefully, otherwise you might burst from laughter!

Bibliography.

1. Victor Dragunsky Wikipedia.

2. Dragunsky Viktor Yuzefovich // Writers of our childhood. 100 names. Part 3: biogr. words – Moscow: Liberia, 2000. — From 152-155.

3. Shchukina, M. Viktor Dragunsky. A man who gave joy with both hands / Marina Shchukina // Dragunsky V. Knights and 60 more stories: a collection of Deniska’s stories with comments by Olga Mikhailova, Denis Dragunsky, Ilya Bernstein / Viktor Dragunsky; ill. Alexey Kapninsky. — Moscow: Publishing project “A and B”, 2020. – P. 235-295. – (Ruslit. Literary monuments of the 20th century)

4. Dudkin, S. “He fell on the grass...”: author and book / Stanislav Dudkin // Dragunsky V. He fell on the grass / Victor Dragunsky. – Moscow: Samokat, pp. 127-158.

Author-compiler: Svetlana Viktorovna Rybak,
head of the department of methodological work of the Rostov Regional Children's Library named after.
V. M. Velichkina The best children's writers

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Notes

1. ↑ 1 2 Dragunsky D.V.
   Photos of Denis Dragunsky (ID). Facebook. — “My father was born on December 1st. For some reason, the “Literary Encyclopedia” says November 30, but my father didn’t pay attention to it. We always celebrated his birthday on December 1, both when he was alive and after his death.” Retrieved November 12, 2013.
2. Dragunsky D.V., 2010, p. 51.
3. Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records (Dragunsky) Archived November 12, 2013 on the Wayback Machine: Mother's two brothers and sister arrived at Ellis Island on March 4, 1913.
4. Jewishgen.org (see database of marriages in Belarus, registration required): Marriage certificate (issued on February 26, 1913 by the office of the Gomel city rabbi) of Yuda Falkovich Pertsovsky, a native of Gomel, 18 years old, and Rita Leibovna Dragunskaya, a native of Starobykhov, 16 years old. The mother of the future writer R.L. Dragunskaya emigrated to America in the spring of 1913 along with her husband and father, Leib Khaimovich Dragunsky (1870-1913), as well as her stepmother Hanoi-Beley Khononovna Ratner (1885-?); the latter signed shortly before the trip, on January 7, 1913.
5. A Pictorial Library of the Yiddish Theater. Museum of Family History (2008-2010). — "Rubin, Menachem (1894-1962) Actor." Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
6. Menachem Rubin, well-known jewish actor, dies in New York (English). JTA Jewish news archive (20 June 1962). Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
7. Illya (Simon) Trilling (English). Museum of Family History. Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
8. Bluebird of fate by Viktor Dragunsky. Jewish Journal (November 30, 2010). Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
9. Memory of the people
10. Book of memory of Jewish soldiers who died in battles against Nazism (p. 498)
11. Miracle song, 1990.
12. Handbook on the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991. knowbysight.info. Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
13. Butovetsky, David
    Sighted at heart. jig.ru. — “Isaak Lvovich Dragunsky, a former prosecutor of the Azov-Black Sea region, was arrested on August 1, 1937. A year later, a security officer’s bullet took his life.” Retrieved April 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
14. Dragunsky D.V., 2010, p. 54.

Biography of Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky.

Victor Yuzefovich Dragunsky (11/30/1913 – 05/06/1972) was born in New York. His parents, Belarusian Jews, who set off shortly before the birth of the future classic of children's literature to seek a better life overseas, were soon forced to return home. Viktor Dragunsky lost his father early - he died of typhus during the First World War. The mother married twice more: the first time to the Red Commissar Voitsekhovsky, the second to the Jewish theater actor Mikhail Rubin. Thanks to his second stepfather, Viktor Dragunsky early learned all the hardships of touring life. Being an active participant in performances, he had to master the art of recitation, learn to tap dance, and host an entertainer. All these “wisdoms” were given to the boy without much difficulty thanks to his innate artistry, excellent memory, and subtle sense of humor. Since 1925, the family began to live permanently in Moscow. After Rubin one day did not return home from another tour, Viktor Dragunsky was forced to earn bread on his own. Over the course of several years, he changed many professions (he even had the opportunity to work as a boatman, taking couples in love along the Moscow River near the Neskuchny Garden), but none of them became his life’s work. As a seventeen-year-old boy, Viktor Dragunsky accidentally saw an advertisement that the Literary and Theater Workshops of Alexei Diky were recruiting people who wanted to study acting. After graduating in 1935, he performed for some time on the stage of the Transport Theater. After a show of young talents, where Viktor Dragunsky performed very successfully, he was offered a job by the management of the Satire Theater. The young actor’s first literary experiments - feuilletons, humoresques, circus reprises - date back to the same time. During the Great Patriotic War, Viktor Dragunsky, who was exempt from military service due to asthma, became a militia member. Then, as an artist of front-line concert brigades, he performed as fighters and home front workers. In the first post-war years, Viktor Dragunsky was looking for himself: he was a film actor, a clown, and was involved in directing. In 1948 he organized the literary and theatrical parody ensemble “Blue Bird”. After a number of successful performances, he was invited to stage several concert programs for Mosestrada. Over the ten years of its existence, the ensemble “Blue Bird” has become a “home” for many wonderful actors: Vsevolod Sanaev, Boris Sichkin, Sergei Martinson, Evgeny Vesnik, Zinovy ​​Gerdt, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Yakovlev. At the end of the 50s, Viktor Dragunsky began to cool down towards his brainchild. He wanted to get away from the routine of theatrical work and find a new interesting thing for himself. In the winter of 1959, Viktor Dragunsky took a vacation, locked himself in a dacha near Moscow and wrote thirteen stories for children. These were the first stories about Denis Korablev. The prototype of the literary hero was a real boy – the writer’s son. These works also reflected many true events from the life of the family of Victor Dragunsky. Stories about Denisk Korablev were first published in 1961, becoming part of the collection “He is alive and glowing...”. The success exceeded all expectations: books about the adventures of the restless boy were published almost every year and reprinted many times. It was thanks to them that Viktor Dragunsky learned what real glory was. He worked as a professional writer for about ten years. In addition to stories for children, Viktor Dragunsky wrote two stories that are intended mainly for adult readers - “He Fell on the Grass...”, “Today and Everyday”. After the writer’s death, in 1980, another of his books, “What I Love,” was published.

Literature

• Borshchevskaya M.
  The whole world. // Children's literature. - 1979. - No. 3. - P. 23-25.
• Vinogradov O.
  “It was wet, dirty and fun.” // Small company. - No. 15-16. — P. 7.
• Gromova T.
  Adult concert on a children's theme. // Children's literature. - 1970. - No. 10. - P. 11-14.
• Dragunskaya A.
  About Victor Dragunsky. // Elementary School. - 2000. - No. 7. - P. 136.
• Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky: (On the 60th anniversary of his birth). // Books for children. - M.: Children's literature, 1972. - P. 128-129.
• Dragunsky D.V.
  Gentleman with a cat. - Ripol Classic, 2010. - 416 p. — 7000 copies. — ISBN 978-5-386-02349-2.
• Kosareva A.V.
  Master of the Smile: [Literary game based on the works of V. Yu. Dragunsky]. / A. V. Kosareva, M. S. Andreeva, M. P. Korotkova. // Read, study, play. (3 issues). Collection of scripts for libraries. - 1999. - No. 2. - P. 14-16.
• Kuznetsova N.I., Meshcheryakova M.I.
  Dragunsky Viktor Yuzefovich // Russian children's writers of the 20th century: Biobibliographical dictionary. - M.: Flint; Science, 1997. - pp. 164-166. — ISBN 5-02-011304-2.
• Linkova I. Ya.
  Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky. // I. Ya. Linkova. Children and books. - M.: Knowledge, 1970. - P. 43-47.
• Mikhailov E.
  Viktor Dragunsky. // Children's literature. - 1988. - No. 10. - P. 53-54.
• Nagibin Yu. M.
  Not someone else’s craft: [Articles]. / Yu. M. Nagibin. - M.: Sovremennik, 1983. - 350 p. — (Library “About Time and About Yourself”).
• Peremyshlev E.
  Quiz “Deniska’s stories” by Viktor Dragunsky. // Literature: newspaper of the publishing house “First of September”. - 1998. - No. 46. - P. 13. - (School within a school).
• Sivokon S.
  Touching childhood. // Family and school. - 1990. - No. 8. - P. 54-56.
• Stepchenko E.
  About Victor Dragunsky and his stories. // Primary school - 1980. - No. 4. - P. 58-59.
• Tarasov K. G.
  Questions of the poetics of V. Dragunsky’s cycle “Deniska’s stories.” // Problems of children's literature and folklore: collection of scientific works. - Petrozavodsk, 1999. - P. 73-96.
• Usacheva E.
  Denis Korablev’s dad: on the 85th anniversary of Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky. // Pioneer truth. - 1998. - November 27 (No. 43). — P. 2.
• Russian writers and poets: Brief biographical dictionary. - M., 2000.
• Miracle song: songs based on poems by Viktor Dragunsky for voice (choir) accompanied by piano (accordion) / Comp. A. V. Dragunskaya; Preface A. Bogoslovsky. - M.: “Soviet Composer”, 1990.

Victor Dragunsky, children

Not only our parents’ generation, but also many of us grew up on the series of books “Denisa’s Stories”. Perhaps, in the realities of modern life, the story of a little boy seems too simple-minded and at times incomprehensible (our children cannot imagine a world without gadgets), but it still attracts attention and finds grateful readers. This is not surprising, because books for children and about children were written by the writer based on personal observations, including those of Victor Dragunsky’s own children .

In the photo - Viktor Dragunsky with his daughter

During his biography, the writer managed to register a legal marriage twice. True, family life with his first chosen one - actress Elena Petrovna Kornilova - did not work out, and therefore did not last long. However, it was still marked by the birth of his son Leonid in 1937. Subsequently, the writer's eldest heir became widely known under his mother's surname, which he bore throughout his life. The second marriage of Viktor Dragunsky was also not childless. In the family, with a difference of 15 years, first a son, Denis, was born, about whom, in fact, we have been reading all these years in our favorite book, and then a daughter, Ksenia. Unfortunately, the writer’s eldest son has been dead for almost ten years. And the other two children of Viktor Dragunsky are no longer just adults and accomplished people, but people with famous names and successful careers. Denis Viktorovich is currently 66 years old, and his younger sister is 51 years old.

In the photo - Denis Dragunsky

In the photo - Ksenia Dragunskaya

As one can judge by studying the biographies of all three children of Viktor Dragunsky, their father’s talent for writing was passed on to each of them, since each one, in one way or another, connected their life activities with literature. The writer's eldest son Leonid Kornilov became famous as a journalist, talented editor and publicist. Denis Dragunsky, having matured and stopped his mischief, graduated from school and the Faculty of Philology. Today he is a very diverse personality, having his own achievements both in journalism and in writing scripts, his own stories and even dramatic works. The daughter of Victor Dragunsky, Ksenia, is a playwright whose works are performed on numerous stages in theaters throughout the country and even far beyond its borders. It is difficult to say how their personal life turned out. However, it is very significant that, having three children, Viktor Dragunsky only became a grandfather once. By the way, granddaughter Irina Dragunskaya, who no longer found her grandfather alive, also became a journalist, combining literary activity with the profession of a designer. Apparently, creativity for his children is much higher than ordinary family happiness.